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Submitted by
Name: Charlie Wilson
From: Turkey (Scottish)

Comments:
I am an ex-Salvation Army person living in Turkey. The music on your site brings back a lot of good memories when I used to attend the Music Camps and meetings. A great way to keep my memories alive. I played euphonium and love to listen to Derrick Kane. A brilliant player. But the main thing for me is the memories.

Added: November 25, 2012

Submitted by
Name: Cassie
From: Brisbane

Comments:
My favourite Christmas record as a child was The Sunbury Junior singers. It took a long time for me as an adult to find the name of the album and the LP. After much research I finally found the LP on ebay a couple of years ago. It was also a surprise to find your website and to be able to listen to these wonderful childhood songs. Now all I need to do is figure out how I can transfer my LP to my Ipod. Thank you.

Added: November 10, 2012

Submitted by
Name: John Sandford
From: Wallington Surrey United Kingdom

Comments:
What a great source of inspiration and a lifetime of memories. Many of the recordings are ‘spiritual highlight’ for me and still bring great times of blessings. This website is a must for those who love the Army of the past and will still bring inspiration to younger salvationists.

Added: October 31, 2012

Submitted by
Name: John Broadbent
From: France

Comments:
What a great site, I cannot get off the comp all those wonderful recordings. Well done on producing such a professional site I would not have known if Col Ian Barr had not written about it this month’s ret Officers news. I live in France but played in Hockley Citadel and Birmingham Citadel bands many years ago. The site is a great contact tool also I have seen many old names there. Do any your readers go the the music Camps at Kenley and Hadleigh? Well done and many blessings I have got hours of listening now.

Added: October 12, 2012

Submitted by
Name: Neil Carter
From: Oxford UK

Comments:
In response to the posts by Hugh and Patrick Joiner, one of the first of the old 78 Regal Zonophone recordings which I remember being in my father’s collection back in the 1950s, was the 1934 MF243 UK Territorial Congress Crystal Palace massed band recording of Colonel Goldsmith’s Meditation ‘Adeste Fideles’. Very much an atmospheric recording and composition of it’s time, listening to it today, I am instantly transported back in time to so many happy family Christmas celebrations. Thank you for reminding me of Colonel Goldsmith’s musical heritage.

Added: September 28, 2012

Submitted by
Name: Hugh Joiner
From: St Albans

Comments:
I see that my son has already contacted you. May I add that I remember an LP of some of Col Goldsmith’s music, which has now gone missing. This included a sonata for piano and brass band (possibly called Eventide - a Meditation). If you can identify this my wife and I would be delighted to hear it again. Thank you for your web site, we had feared that we had lost all contact with Col Goldsmith’s music.

Added: September 25, 2012

Submitted by
Name: Patrick Joiner
From: Ampthill Bedfordshire

Comments:
Hi Just discovered your website and have been having a wonderful time scrolling through the recordings to listen to music by, or recorded by Col. AR Goldsmith who was my great grandfather. My mother often tells me of her grandfather who was a leading musician in the Salvation Army but I have never before found recordings of his music of him playing, so this has been a real thrill for me and will be for her as well. Many thanks for this website - it is a real blessing.

Added: September 24, 2012

Submitted by
Name: Mel Kent
From: Live in China

Comments:
An absolutely fantastic collection.

Added: September 19, 2012

Submitted by
Name: Phil Robinson
From: Northmead

Comments:
I was forwarded a link to this sight some time ago and I continually listen to the music I grew up with and now play in Parramatta SA Band. I love the old time music that has been brought back to life for new generations of music lovers to enjoy.

Added: September 11, 2012

Submitted by
Name: Audrey Frykenberg
From: Wisconsin USA

Comments:
I was part of the Braeside Corps in Harare, Zimbabwe many years ago, and love(d) O Disclose Thy Lovely Face, and Bread of Heaven. I found this site after much internet digging - thanks for putting all this online. If you have a recording of Bread of Heaven (Baird/Grinsted) and All For Thee (Havergal/Kellner) I would love to hear these again. Thanks for all the time and energy you have put into this.

Added: August 19, 2012